Making Multicultural Connections
Through Trade Books

Nina's Treasures
Written by Stefan Czernecki and Timothy Rhodes
Illustrated by Stefan Czernecki

Cultural Group: Other International Cultures

Content Connection: Science Kindergarten

Topic : Living Things

Suggested Exemplars

• Guess Box: egg
• Picture Interpretation: Feathers in Bloom by Marc Chagall
• Comparison Circles: fact vs fiction

Learning Sequence

1. Guess Box: egg

2. Use the cover of Nina's Treasures, and have students hypothesize about the connection between the egg and the story.

3. Read Nina's Treasures.

4. Discuss the changes that happened to Nina during the winter. Compare Nina's needs with the needs of other living things.

5. Have children use wallpaper scraps to create their own painted eggs.

Extension

• Students draw pictures of events that happened in the story and then sequence the events correctly.
• Use the children's pictures with comparison circles to sort the pictures into fact and fantasy sets about hens.
• Use pictures from Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco to illustrate how pisanka (painted eggs) were traditionally created in the Ukraine.

Technology Link

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• Use KID PIX STUDIO (Broderbund) to make Ukrainian eggs (pisanka) as shown on page 56 of the KID PIX AROUND THE WORLD ACTIVITY BOOK by Barbara Chan (Addison Wesley, 1994).

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